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The price of progress is that sometimes we have to say goodbye to the old. In the case of Dallas Love Field, that would be the Chili’s, Pizza Hut and McDonald’s restaurants in its main lobby.

Those restaurants are in what officials now call Terminal 2, the Southwest Airlines area of the airport. Those restaurants close effective Wednesday, Aug. 1.

“Closure of these concessions will allow Love Field to continue construction on the new terminal lobby, which is expected to be completed spring 2013,” the Love Field Modernization Program says in its announcement.

You can still eat at a Chili’s, a McDonald’s and a Pizza Hut at Terminal 2, as well as other eating places. But you’ll have to go through security, to the Southwest Airlines gates, to reach them.

Here’s some other changes highlighted by LFMP:

“The temporary wall that currently separates the Terminal 2 lobby and the new Ticket Hall will be taken down in preparation for the Ticket Hall opening in fall 2012. When it opens, the Southwest Airlines ticket counter will be permanently relocated to the new Ticket Hall.

“As a result, the Hudson News store stationed in front of the temporary wall will be closed in early August 2012. Passengers can still pick up magazines, newspapers, other publications and snacks at the Hudson News store located in the secure side of the concourse or in the Terminal 2 Baggage Claim Hall.”

When this is all done, Love Field will be substantially rebuilt, including a new 20-gate concourse. The first phase of that concourse is scheduled to open in first quarter 2013, with the second and final phase opening about a year later.